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Re: Current Sales
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 00:24:37 GMT
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Ah, that would be the time-honoured and apparently quite effective
adverstising technique known as lying.

In lugnet.loc.au, Travis Matheson writes:
I got a Dick Smith catalog in my local paper on Saturday.  they had the
Dark Side Developer Kit for $75.87 on the front page.  This sale goes from
the 2nd to the 17th of Nov

so I don't know where Tandy's "Exclusive" came from...


Trav (-|-)



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(...) Not necessarily lying. IIRC, Tandy is now just a business name of one of Dick Smith Electronics companies (ultimately owned by Woolworths). Both outlets of one company could probably share an 'exclusive' without it being technically lying (nor (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)

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(...) I got a Dick Smith catalog in my local paper on Saturday. they had the Dark Side Developer Kit for $75.87 on the front page. This sale goes from the 2nd to the 17th of Nov so I don't know where Tandy's "Exclusive" came from... Trav (-|-) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)

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